nspindel
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I will, but I do plan on being buried with my Eddie Current
I got the black also but I also want the silver! Once your DAC-2 breaks in try listening your LCD's directly out of it and see what you think.
My W4S DAC2 arrived yesterday. It's like a little tank. I love the piece aesthetically.
Sound wise, way too early to tell. I've also replaced the balanced interconnects between the DAC and my Eddie Current Balancing Act with silver cables, those can take up to 500 hours to break in, and at least 200 hours for the W4S. So I'm going to resist the urge to do any critical listening for several weeks so that silver cable has time to open up.
However, I can't imagine that 2496 files playing through the Squeezebox, into a W4S DAC2, into an Eddie Current BA, into either a Krell amp with Polk SDA's, or into LCD-2's, is going to sound anything short of spectacular. Expectations are definitely very high right now.
WarriorAnt, is that how you are primarily listening to your LCD-2 right now? Levels high enough? Just got my pair of LCD-2 today. No immediate plans to go balanced, haven't looked at the advantages of balanced vs unbalanced yet. I know it will cost me more in the end in headphone cables and better amps
I'm just about at the point where my W4S DAC2 is broken in, it's just under 200 hours right now. I'm going to continue looping through it for another 100 before I stop. I've been listening along the way and think it sounds great. It's looking like it could be a winner over the Benchmark. Unfortunately, it's breaking in at exactly the same moment that my LCD-2's broke on me. Listened to them last night, all was perfect. Listened today, the right channel is gone. Swapped L/R and R/L connectors on the cable, and the right channel is still out, so it's definitely the headphones that aren't working. Even swapped cables, no good. So going to have to make a warranty claim there.
But I'm still enjoying the DAC2 through the loudspeakers, this could be a keeper!
Anybody have success stories trying different aftermarket cables? I'm still using stock power cable and Blue Jeans Cables interconnects. I did get a deal on a Wireworld Starlight USB cable but it's hard to say that had any real effect on sound. But it looks good and is flat
I'm using the coax with a Signal Cable Silver Resolution Digital cable. The sound is absolutely superb.
WarriorAnt, good description, I agree 100%. This is a really great dac.
What I want to do now is get a set of C-1 Ultra Analog unbalanced interconnects and then do a comparison to see if there is a sonic difference between the RCA path into the V200 and the Balanced path into the V200.
Other power cables under consideration besides the W4S is the Shunyata Research Venom3. I might get the W4S for the DAC-2 and the Venom3 for the V200 or the Venom3 for both.